Syndicated Ratings: ‘Oprah’ Beats ‘Judge Judy’ + Berkus Schmerkus

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Oprah was back on top, besting Judge Judy in both household ratings and total viewers. Likewise, Jeopardy took the #3 spot back from Two and a Half Men with both viewers and household rating.

The Ellen DeGeneres Show was again outside of the top 25 rankings and was bested by Maury (also not in viewing top 25) across-the-board in the various age/gender demographics and tied with a 1.9 household ratings. Nonetheless, Warner Bros. Television loves Ellen DeGeneres.

Swift Justice with Nancy Grace widened its lead over first-run rival and Oprah spinoff Nate Berkus to 60%, or 712,000 viewers on average per program. Swift Justice, which maintained its season high 1.4 rating, attracted 1,896,000 viewers on average, while Berkus, down 10% week to week to a 0.9 rating, a new low, got 1,184,000 viewers on average.

Jerry Springer was up to a 1.3 household rating, 18% better than last year at this time when it got a 1.1 rating. It’s also up 15% year over year in total viewers (1,836,000 vs. 1,598,000).

Steve Wilkos was up similarly to Jerry Springer in household rating, but only up 1% year over year in total viewers correction: Steve Wilkos was also up 18% year over year, but only up 1% vs. the previous week.

Please note that the syndicated weekly results are delayed versus normal reporting. While we get the broadcast and cable ratings for the prior Monday-Sunday period every Tuesday, there is an extra week of lag time with the syndicated ratings and these numbers are not for last week, but for the week before last.

ESPN Monday Night Football is syndicated to a local affiliate in the markets of the two teams playing. Unfortunately (for us) Nielsen includes all of the viewing that happened on ESPN too (which was almost all of it) in the numbers below. As a result, for the rest of football season Monday Night Football will show up at the top of this chart because that’s how Nielsen reports the data.

Top 25 Syndicated Shows for the week ending October 10, 2010:

Rank

Program

Network

Day

HH Rating

Viewers (000)

1

ESPN NFL REGULAR SEASON

ESP

M……

9.5

14,841

2

WHEEL OF FORTUNE

CTD

MTWTF..

6.5

10,224

3

JEOPARDY

CTD

MTWTF..

5.5

8,326

4

TWO-HALF MEN-SYN (AT)

WB

MTWTF..

5.2

8,083

5

OPRAH WINFREY SHOW

CTD

MTWTF..

4.6

6,186

6

JUDGE JUDY (AT)

CTD

MTWTF..

4.3

6,097

7

FAMILY GUY-WK-SYN (AT)

2/T

……S

3.8

5,806

8

ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT(AT)

CTD

MTWTF..

3.9

5,668

9

FAMILY GUY-MF-SYN (AT)

2/T

MTWTF..

3.0

4,847

10

TWO-HALF MEN WKND B (AT)

WB

……S

2.9

4,250

11

OFFICE-SYN (AT)

NBU

MTWTF..

2.7

4,084

12

EVRY LVS RAYMOND-SYN(AT)

CTD

MTWTF..

2.7

4,001

13

INSIDE EDITION (AT)

CTD

MTWTF..

2.9

3,994

14

CRIMINAL MINDS-SYN (AT)

CTD

……S

2.6

3,880

15

MY WIFE AND KIDS (AT)

DAD

MTWTF..

2.6

3,804

16

TWO-HALF MEN WKND A (AT)

WB

……S

2.4

3,734

17

AMERICAN DAD-SYN (AT)

2/T

…..SS

2.2

3,570

18

GEORGE LOPEZ (AT)

WB

MTWTF..

2.3

3,488

19

HOW I MET-MTHR-MF-SYN(AT)

2/T

MTWTF..

2.3

3,413

20

WHEEL OF FORTUNE WKND

CTD

……S

2.2

3,394

21

SEINFELD (AT)

SPT

MTWTF..

2.3

3,379

22

SEINFELD-WKND (AT)

SPT

……S

2.2

3,335

23

KING OF THE HILL-SYN(AT)

2/T

MTWTF..

2.2

3,319

24

LAW & ORDER:CI-WKL (AT)

NBU

……S

2.2

3,172

25

LIVE WITH REGIS AND KELLY

DAD

MTWTF..

2.4

3,151

–For syndicated shows which air on multiple days, the viewership shown is the average of all telecasts.